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School Lunch

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Education

Religious Schools Needn't Follow New Title IX Gender Guidance To Stay in School Lunch Program

Plus: The Espionage Act is still bad, six more states could legalize recreational marijuana, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.16.2022 9:30 AM

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Food Policy

America's Families Still Revile USDA-Funded School Lunches

The central planning of America's public school lunch menus has been a disaster.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.14.2022 7:45 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Food Fight

Charles Oliver | 12.23.2021 4:00 AM

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Food

Trump's School Lunch Changes Lead to a Pointless Food Fight

"It's unconscionable that the Trump administration would do the bidding of the potato and junk food industries," noted one critic. But Trump's changes are relatively minor.

Liz Wolfe | 4.16.2020 6:00 AM

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No Matter Who Wins the Fight Over Trump's School Lunch Reforms, Kids Lose.

School lunches are unlikely to improve, whatever the lawsuit’s outcome.

Baylen Linnekin | 8.31.2019 7:30 AM

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Public schools

This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts.

Instead of teaching kids the importance of paying their debts, Wyoming Valley West school district offered a lesson about the arbitrary and terrifying power of government.

Eric Boehm | 7.25.2019 10:50 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Cute Kid You Got There

Charles Oliver | 7.24.2019 4:00 AM

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Public schools

Chobani and GoFundMe Wipe Lunch Debts in School District That Planned To 'Lunch Shame' Students

Public schools in Warwick, Rhode Island, originally said that every student with lunch debts would be served a cold jelly sandwich.

Billy Binion | 5.10.2019 4:20 PM

Reason Roundup

States Sue Over School Lunch Changes, Say They're Not Scientific Like the Obama Rules Based on Retracted Nutrition Studies

Plus: Pete Buttigieg says no to "free college," and the problems with Elizabeth Warren's plan to jail business execs

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.4.2019 9:30 AM

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Food

Sanity Restored to School Lunches?

It doesn't matter how healthy options are if kids won't eat them.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.18.2019 6:00 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Please, Sir, I Want Some More

Charles Oliver | 11.22.2018 4:00 AM

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Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama Didn't Want to Nag People About School Lunch

But she sure did anyway!

Joe Setyon | 11.13.2018 5:00 PM

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Usda

USDA School Lunches Still Stink

School's back in session, and that it means time for reports of crummy government-approved school lunches

Baylen Linnekin | 9.29.2018 8:30 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Thank You, Ma'am

Charles Oliver | 9.18.2018 4:00 AM

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School Lunch

States Fight Back Against USDA Rules That Cause School Food Waste

Bad mandates result in uneaten foods. Schools figure out how to respond.

Baylen Linnekin | 10.7.2017 8:00 AM

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School Lunch

The Junk Science Behind 'Smarter Lunchrooms'

A federal program to help public-school students eat healthier is based on highly problematic-and perhaps fraudulent-research.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.29.2017 11:00 AM

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School Lunches To Suck More Like They Used To

Awful Obama administration-era reforms are being scaled back slightly. School lunches will still stink.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.6.2017 8:00 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: The Tall Poppy

Charles Oliver | 1.4.2017 4:00 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Chicken Picking

Charles Oliver | 11.10.2016 4:00 AM

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Brickbat: Dining Alone

Charles Oliver | 9.27.2016 4:00 AM

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Regulation

Ridiculous Rules For Swordfish, Ceiling Fans, Grain Barges Help Make 2016 The Most Highly Regulated Year In History

Registry of federal regulations surpasses 50,000 pages, on pace to break annual record.

Eric Boehm | 8.4.2016 10:05 AM

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School Lunch

Little Girl Detained By Police After Trying to Buy School Lunch with Real $2 Bill

She did nothing wrong. But even if she had, a chicken nugget scam is not a matter for the cops.

Robby Soave | 5.4.2016 2:45 PM

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Policy

USDA School Lunch Problems Continue

New research paints a rosy picture of the program. But is the picture telling the whole story?

Baylen Linnekin | 1.23.2016 8:00 AM

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School Lunch

Leave the Kid. Take the Cannoli.

Charles Oliver | 7.8.2015 6:00 AM

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Policy

Michelle Obama's America: Salt 'Black Markets' Arise in School Cafeterias

Kids need flavor packets to cope with federal guidelines

Robby Soave | 6.25.2015 9:52 AM

Politics

The Great School Lunch Fight Now With SCIENCE!

Nick Gillespie | 12.22.2014 10:37 AM

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Politics

Kids Tweet #ThanksMichelleObama for Crappy Public School Lunches

Robby Soave | 11.21.2014 3:52 PM

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Politics

Separate School Lunch and the State

The USDA's school lunch program has earned a failing grade.

Baylen Linnekin | 11.15.2014 8:00 AM

Policy

Friday Funnies: School Lunch

Henry Payne | 10.10.2014 7:00 AM

School Lunch

Student Suspended for Selling Illicit Full-Sugar Pepsi Out of His Locker

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.15.2014 12:29 PM

Politics

Make Lunch, Not War

Are one in four Americans really too fat to fight? The figure appears to be inflated.

Baylen Linnekin | 8.16.2014 8:00 AM

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Civil Liberties

District: Sorry Kids, No More Birthday Cake In School—Try a Delicious Pencil Instead

Just let them eat cake.

Robby Soave | 6.25.2014 4:29 PM

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Economics

School Lunch Revolution: How the Free Market Is Tackling Bad Cafeteria Food

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.5.2014 4:40 PM

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Politics

The School Lunch Fight Misses the Mark

Should we expand the USDA's failing National School Lunch Program, as First Lady Michelle Obama wants, or should we slow down its implementation, as House GOP members prefer? No.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.31.2014 8:00 AM

Politics

"You Say Potato, Mrs. Obama. I Say, Please Stop Micromanaging Our Diets and Our Schools."

Nick Gillespie | 5.30.2014 5:07 PM

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Policy

This Is What Happens When the Federal Government Plays National Lunch Lady

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.30.2014 12:30 PM

Policy

Schools May Get More Time to Implement New Nutrition Requirements—and the First Lady Isn't Happy About It

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.28.2014 1:25 PM

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Policy

Chocolate Milk Ban Backfires for School Lunch Programs

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.21.2014 2:40 PM

Policy

National School Lunch Program Embarrassment Continues

The USDA has managed to make school lunches stink even more. So why does the government continue to double down on the program?

Baylen Linnekin | 4.12.2014 8:00 AM

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